What is this? It happens while I’m on private in safari on Google or something anyway what in the world is this? It didn’t even show a couple hours ago and now it shows on ever new tab next to every website. (I tried to circle it in red but it that weird blue bar) also it doesn’t show on regular tabs only on private tabs.

A few months ago, I published a blog post about converting Chrome extensions to Safari extensions. Now, I'm starting to experiment with supporting Safari for iOS, which will allow my extension to be used in every browser that supports extensions. Yes, iOS Safari does support extensions, although there are some limitations. I wrote a new blog post explaining how to do this and discussing some of the pitfalls.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/1joucoa/converting_chrome_extensions_to_safari/

How do I access it and use it?

Hello everyone,

Unwittingly, I exported several folders that contained many bookmarks. A new folder, called "Saved Tabs", was automatically created with all the bookmarks inside of it. These appear now as .webloc files.

What do I have to do to bring them back to normal? Meaning back in my bookmark collection and without them being harmed or distorted in the process.

Thanks in advance for your help and kindness

If I completely uninstall STP including all related files, I can use it temporarily, but when I try to start it after exiting it, it crashes and I can't start it at all after that.

There seems to be some problem with saving sessions or settings.

The regular Safari on my Tahoe DB7 had a bug where when switching tabs from the tab bar, the screen would go black for a while before redrawing, but this was fixed in STP, so I used it.

Are there any public archives of STP 225?

Just to be clear, I know it's a testing version and unstable, I just wanted to share that there is a crash bug.

I have tried turning my screen time settings to unrestricted and have tried just turning off screen time. there is no one else who has control over the iPad I’m using and I’ve tried to fix it by doing a network reset. Nothing has worked please help.

I can't figure out a consistent logic and it's making me nuts.
Say I have an internal host named 'goto', which resolves in my DNS search scope, set up as a link shortener. I want to be able to type e.g. 'goto/plex [enter]' in the unified input bar and have it follow the redirect to my [private, internal] plex server. What seems to happen, though:

goto -> searches
goto/ -> redirects to the base URL of my shortlink server
goto/plex -> searches
https:// goto/plex -> follows the redirect (the extra space is to stop it being read as a link here)
goto/plex (after having already used the https version) -> sometimes, possibly for an indeterminate cache timeout, follows the redirect

Is there any documentation on how this can be better controlled? Something else I can do to make it always try the host resolver first?

"why can't I copy and paste this text normally?" turns into this link when I try and copy and paste my search criteria from the top most search bar. Can I change this behavior?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=why+can%27t+I+copy+and+paste+this+text+normally%3F&t=osx&ia=web

I HATE the copy and paste from Safari's search bar. Why in gods name does it make a link instead of copying the actual normal text I type?

Once I login in to my youtube account ,videos comment section won't loading. And don't say me you must clear your browsing history and cache ,because it does not help. I'll never use this garbage browser again...

How do you delete tab group favorites on safari while using a Mac? I'm trying to delete one for a past class (it doesn't have any bookmarks), but it won't let me. When I right click, it just toggles down. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Safari has a feature that allows users to delete parts of a page. With all of the pseudo-advertising done to squeeze every penny out of people, I get it. However this feature has a concerning downside.

I'm the developer of a web platform and I occasionally get missing form field errors from my server. Since all of the spammers are blocked these reports are explicitly for living human beings interacting with the DOM. Since I properly detect the rendering engine by ignoring the HTTP user agent I also explicitly know it's Safari.

So my question is quite simply: is there any JavaScript event specific to Safari associated with deleting XML/HTML from a page through this feature? I need to intercept it and determine if it's a form or form field element and preventDefault() if so otherwise Safari users will continue to shoot their own feet. I will just ignore people who claim I shouldn't mess with the user experience when I'm clearly trying to protect the user experience.

There are no advertisements or promotional material on any of my client websites so I also have full legitimate confidence that users are deleting form fields purely by accident. This was extremely prevalent for Safari users when I had my Rich Editor enabled. Safari users would literally delete the Rich Editor XML from the page and the entire body of text would be lost. If you want to do something be highly certain that you're doing it the right way!

If you’re using Safari and feel limited by its default features, check out Stay for Safari. It’s designed to make browsing smoother, cleaner, and more customizable:

✨ Key features:

• Manage userscripts (like Tampermonkey, but built for Safari)
• Block ads with customizable filter rules
• Mark and highlight unwanted ads
• Force Dark Mode on any webpage
• Download videos & images directly from websites

Though Apple says this browser is optimized best for iOS devices and can reduce heat and battery usage. Sometimes I find the opposite. This has been happening for quite some generation for even forever since safari existed. Sometimes I would use it for simple task as a shopping or booking a vacation. It would not only heat up quite a lot but also use a lot of battery probably because of the high heat. I don’t understand why, maybe there are some special scripts running in the background or something but sometimes I find other browser like brave to be better than safari in terms of performance and battery. I’ve had a iPhone 12,13,15, and now 16. All have the same high heat and battery usage. Anyone know something or is this just your typical Apple thing?

Hi guys! I'm very excited to launch a menubar app that fixes the problem of not having cool Arc-like features in Safari.

Meet SupaSidebar: An Arc-like sidebar for Mac

What it does:

• Press a shortcut to instantly save URLs to your sidebar (or copy to clipboard)
• Search using the command panel
• Save directly from the sidebar
• Unlimited Spaces
• Folders and pinned tabs coming soon

Price: $6.99 at supasidebar.com, one-time purchase, no subscription.

Launch offer: I'll be randomly giving away promo codes to people who upvote and comment!

I am really looking forward to know what you like and dislike about SupaSidebar

Why i built SupaSidebar?: The need came from Arc's performance issues and developers leaving the project, forcing users like me to switch browsers. As a developer, I loved Arc's vertical tab bar, useful shortcuts (like copy URL), keyboard-first experience, and other cool features, so I built an easy solution for other browsers. This is just initial version, I will be bringing more useful features soon. You can checkout roadmap on website.

You know when you’re just trying to browse a site in peace and boom — it decides it’s casino night and starts opening the same trash tabs like “bets”, “Betano”, or “crazy tiger” etc ? Yeah, super fun… I’ve tried several Adblock’s but still couldn’t get the job done the way I wanted, until I found this Safari extension that let you mark an site and then it’ll literally auto-closes those sites the second they appear. Been using it for a couple of weeks and honestly… why isn’t this just a built-in Safari feature already, Apple?

Here’s the link if you’re tired of playing whack-a-mole with spam tabs: https://apps.apple.com/br/app/autoclose-website-blocker/id6749608638

I think most SEO professionals use Chrome, because of the range of extensions, but personally I prefer Safari.

That's why I've built SEO Website Scanner . It just gives basic SEO on-page info, without having to check the source code. And, it also works on iOS, making it possible with your iPhone to check meta titles + descs, etc.

Hope you like it.

I don't know if anybody has noticed this, but in macOS there are two default ways to invoke lookup/preview in apps like Safari and Finder: 1-finger force click, and the keyboard shortcut Control-Command-D. Today I saw a Safari update available in System Settings, so I installed it — and afterwards I found that the shortcut no longer works in Safari! I've also set up a few gestures in BetterTouchTool to trigger lookup/preview, and none of them work now either. Force-click on the trackpad still works every time.

To be precise, it's not completely nonfunctional: the Control-Command-D shortcut and BTT triggers do work, but only once after launching Safari. Once the preview is closed, pressing the shortcut again produces no response until Safari is restarted — and then it again only works once after restart!

If anyone relies heavily on the shortcut or BTT to trigger lookup/preview, I strongly recommend not updating Safari to 26.0 (20622.1.22.11.11)! I've submitted feedback through the official Feedback Assistant app but haven’t received a reply yet. I'm using macOS Sequoia 15.6 by the way.

UPDATE: So everything is working properly again after I updated my MacOS to Sequoia 15.7... All the issues have disappeared. I'll probably delete this thread soon since it only affects one specific macOS version and isn’t a universal issue at all.

If you're like me and use Safari’s profile feature to separate your work, personal, or hobby browsing, you’ve probably had this happen:

You start browsing in the wrong profile by accident, open a few tabs... then a few more... and suddenly realize you've got a whole window full of work tabs sitting in your hobby profile (or vice versa).

Unfortunately, Safari doesn’t have a built-in "Move Tab to Another Profile" option — but there’s a workaround, and it’s surprisingly smooth once you know how it works.

Why This Is Useful

Safari profiles are a great way to keep things organized — different extensions, favorites, history, cookies, etc. But if you misplace a tab (or a whole window’s worth), your organization system goes out the window. This method lets you move your tabs back where they belong without having to copy/paste URLs or start from scratch.

Step-by-Step: Move Tabs Between Profiles

1. Select the tabs you want to move:

   • Hold down Command (⌘) and click to select individual tabs.
   • Or use Shift + Click to select a full range.

2. Click the Profile name in the Safari toolbar (top left).

3. Select “New Tab Group with [X] Selected Tabs” (or just “New Tab Group with [X] Tabs” if nothing is selected — it’ll group the entire window).

4. Safari will create a new tab group and open the Sidebar.

   • The new group will be named Untitled (you can rename it now or later).

5. In the sidebar, hover over the new tab group, click the three-dot icon, and choose: → “Move to Profile…”, then select the profile you want.

6. Switch to the destination profile:

   • Either use the Profile button (if you’re on the Start Page), or
   • Go to File > New Window > [Profile Name].

7. Open the Sidebar if it’s not already showing, and click on your tab group name to open all tabs in the window.

Pro tip: In the Sidebar, if you click the little arrow next to the tab group name instead of the name itself, you’ll see a list of the tabs in the group instead of automatically opening them. From there, you can right-click individual tabs in the list and move them to other tab groups inside the same profile.

Hope this helps someone! Maybe one day Apple sneak in an official one-click way to do this — but for now, this totally works.

Happy browsing!

Why does this keep coming up when I try to go on Abercombie or Hollister’s website? It’s only those two websites this happens and it keeps coming up on chrome and safari and even when I use my macbook so I have no way of accessing them

I skip ahead in a lot of YouTube videos, and it feels like safari (unlike chrome) literally renders frame by frame of the fast forward and thus increases battery consumption. I'm using adguard and safari but with minimal filters.

I've been browser hopping all these years since Safari didn't have uBlock; with uBlock now back, I'm finally back and settled in.